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mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files
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GitHub - rust-lang/mdBook: Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust - rust-lang/mdBook
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Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)
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Google can still use Bluetooth to track your Android phone when Bluetooth is turned off
When it comes to tracking the precise location of an Android user’s phone, Google appears to use every means available—including Bluetooth-based location information transmitted to the company when the user might think they have Bluetooth turned off entirely.
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Why did the 1982-era MCZ 2/60 desktop computer have an Exxon logo on it?
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Ken Shirriff
Vintage Zilog computer from 1982, the MCZ 2/60, used the Z80. But why is there an Exxon logo on it? In the 1980s everyone wanted to be a computer company. Exxon bought Zilog and others in 1981, planning a computer empire rivaling IBM. The plan failed, costing…
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Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
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TFHE: Fast Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus
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tfhe.github.io
TFHE Fast Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus
A fast open-source library for fully homomorphic encryption.
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Computers Can Be Understood
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Made of Bugs
Computers can be understood
Computers and computer systems are build up from deterministic, comprehensible, building blocks. Their operations and behaviors can be understood and reasoned about. I relate my personal beliefs and mindset on this point, and explore some manifestations and…
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Rome: An Entire JavaScript Toolchain with Zero Third Party Dependencies
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Undefined behavior can result in time travel (2014)
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Microsoft News
Undefined behavior can result in time travel (among other things, but time travel is the funkiest)
The C and C++ languages are notorious for the very large section of the map labeled here be dragons, or more formally, undefined behavior. When undefined behavior is invoked, anything is possible. For example, a variable can be both true and false.
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Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life (2012) [video]
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Life in life
A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life.
The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel - for more information, see http://otcametapixel.blogspot.com.au/
The life simulator used is Golly…
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How to Interview Engineers When You're Not Technical – Part II
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Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park:The bear population has quadrupled
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Los Angeles Times
Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
Bears, bobcats and other critters are roaming free in California's most popular national park, closed to visitors since March 20
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Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
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Amazon to add 75,000 jobs as online orders surge during lockdowns
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Monday it would hire 75,000 more people for jobs ranging from warehouse staff to delivery drivers as the coronavirus epidemic keeps Americans locked in their homes and demand for online orders surge.
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Ask HN: How can I restore my concentration when reading?
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear cases by telephone in May
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Supreme Court to hear cases, including those on Trump financial records, by telephone in May
It's the first time the court will hear cases remotely.
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As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work
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FDA Grants Approval for First Saliva Based Coronavirus Test
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www.rutgers.edu
New Rutgers Saliva Test for Coronavirus Gets FDA Approval
The new saliva collection method, which RUCDR developed in partnership with Spectrum Solutions and Accurate Diagnostic Labs, will allow for broader population screening than the current method of nose and throat swabs.
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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Show HN: Stuck at Fucking Home. I got bored and started compiling lists
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Stuck at Fucking Home
Stuck at Fucking Home - Quarantine Entertainment
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Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it
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malleable.systems
Malleable Systems Collective
The Malleable Systems Collective catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power in computing
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Build versus Buy
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Lethain
Build versus buy.
A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to…
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As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting
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Medium
As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting
Advertising rates on the platform have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic
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